The concept of a funnel is invariably used as an explanation of a flow where you start with a large base group of something (usually customers) and end up at the end with a much smaller subset that is ...

I think most people are well aware what a drag-queen is (a man dressed/acting as a woman), but I've never before today heard the phrase "drag-king"
I can however, easily arrive at the conclusion that ...

The general concept of power, as in social and political power, but also as in "power levels", is very different from the concept of power in physics (where it refers to the rate of doing work). Since ...

Example: My "flight" is at 2:00 PM.
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I am a Filipino, and English is our second language here in the Philippines. We have 7,000+ islands here and travel by boat is very common, yet we don't have ...

I need a phrase to mean process of copying somebody's work is in the context of industry/manufacturing. Is there a concise phrase with the meaning similar to "plagiarism" by a competitor in business ...

My question pertains to the usage of 'a more perfect union' in its original context-- the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.
I want to say that this is a metaphor, because the authors are using the ...

I'm trying to say that a certain individual adds noise to any place he goes.
When someone, figuratively, enhances the mood of a room he enters we say "he lights up the room".
Is there any way to use ...

I am looking for a hypernym for the set of different "mental states" or "sedation levels", but I don't know which one (if any) would apply here. I have values like the following in mind:
is dead
is ...

How would one refer to discrimination purely based on religion? Is there a single word?
For example discrimination based on sex is often referred to as sexism, discrimination based on race is often ...

According to Merriam-Webster, an arsonist is a person that engages in "the willful or malicious burning of property (as a building) especially with criminal or fraudulent intent".
Flooding can also ...

Anthropomorphism is about attributing human emotions to other animals.
I have a one-month old baby at home, and was wondering if there was a corresponding word for attributing adult human emotions to ...

Atheists reject that God exists and agnostics do not know if God exists. What is the word for people who do not care if God exists? Does some word moonlight for that or is there a specific term (apart ...

While writing programs, I need to create a drop down for setting periods, like daily, weekly, monthly, etc. Using one year as a time frame. This question is driven by lack of a better word. I've had ...